The third day after Zhang Qian crossed the Gushui River and entered the defense zone of the Xiangbei Army, it was the first day of the twelfth lunar month, and there was only one month left before entering the sixth year of Yanyou. Han Qian did not wait for any response from Li Zhigao in Le'an City.
On this day, Han Qian ordered Su Lie and Zhao Wuji to lead their troops to cross the Gushui River from an earth dam built to block the river upstream of Dushanjin and enter the east bank area.
Although Li Zhigao did not give a direct response, in Sulie, Zhao Wuji led an infantry of 6,000 horses into the east bank. The Zuo Longque Army was west of the Gushui River, and the soldiers and horses close to the west bank quickly withdrew westward.
Han Qian stopped his horse on the remaining embankment on the east bank, looking at the generals of the Xiangbei Army retreating to the west.
The pale and feeble sun in the afternoon was shining brightly in the sky, and in the biting cold wind, it could not give anyone the slightest warmth.
"If Li Zhigao doesn't respond directly, then he has the initiative to provoke a military provocation. He may think that this will tie us up and not easily deploy troops to the west of the Gushui River, right?" Guo Rong said with emotion.
Although the Xiangbei Army took the initiative to withdraw from the camps near the west bank, before Li Zhigao gave a formal response, the west of the Gushui River was still the Xiangbei Army's defense area. If the Xiangbei Army really wanted to provoke a war, the two armies were at the Gushui River.
When bloody conflicts broke out on the West Bank, Tangyi was still unreasonable.
Now they could see the Xiangbei Army's scout cavalry, which was closest to their front troops and horses, less than a hundred paces away. Both sides held their swords and bows horizontally in front of them, and there was a possibility of a close encounter at any time and a bloody conflict.
But at this moment, Han Qian could no longer care too much. Kong Xirong ordered more soldiers and horses to be assigned, and they entered the west bank like a tide. He ordered the forward soldiers and horses to break the sharp arrows and use the broken arrows to shoot at Xiang who was approaching the intrusion.
The Northern Army scouts drove them out, using chariots and large shield formations to advance step by step, and the rear troops occupied the camps where the Xiangbei Army had withdrawn...
The secret agent who sneaked into the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom returned from flying pigeons last night, conveying the latest news from the Jin Kingdom, which made Han Qian even more worried about the current situation.
Under the siege of three armies led by the Jin crown prince Shi Chengzu, the Luzhou surrendered general Tian Weiye, and the Chengde army's Jiedu envoy Wang Yuankui, Taiyuan Mansion, known as the great city in the north, was unable to support the defense of the new emperor Shi Jiyuan of the Jin state.
After staying there for half a year, it completely collapsed at noon on November 16th.
Led by Shi Jiyuan, the new emperor of Jin, and others, the last 30,000 elite Jin troops were either killed or surrendered, and were all destroyed.
The Mongol people seemed to have expected this result very early. After three days of massacre, on the 24th, they consecrated the Jin crown prince Shi Chengzu as King Yong, the Chengde Army Jiedushi Wang Yuankui as the Hejian County King, and the Luzhou surrendered general Tian Weiye as the King of Hejian County.
The edict of the Prince of Dongliang County was directly issued to the world in Taiyuan Prefecture.
Just judging from the names of these three people, it can be expected that the 70,000 to 80,000 surrendered and surrendered troops headed by Shi Chengzu and Tian Weiye will move along the Fenshui River Valley at the fastest speed after a brief rest.
Advance towards the Guanzhong (Yongzhou) area; except for some of the cavalry, most of the Mongol troops may be mainly focused on digesting the newly acquired land in the early stage.
However, just because Tian Weiye, Shi Chengzu, and Wang Yuankui's troops surrendered or surrendered, it does not mean that their combat effectiveness must not be strong.
Wang Yuankui was able to become the Jiedushi of the Chengde Army to guard Dingzhou and Hengzhou. His own abilities and the combat effectiveness of the Chengde Army were already considered by the Jin Dynasty monarchs to be able to stop the Mongolian and Uighur cavalry from marching south to the border.
And Tian Weiye was able to hold Luzhou for more than half a year under Liang Emperor Zhu Yu. How could he be weak?
Tian Weiye was originally a subordinate of King Lu Shi Jiyuan. He was ordered to defend Luzhou to resist the Liang army's offensive for more than half a year, and he did his best. Later, Liu Jun fell into a trap and was killed by the Mongols. When Luzhou fell into siege again, he had already run out of arrows.
With food supplies running out, Tian Weiye was forced to surrender with his troops.
However, Lu Wang Shi Jiyuan then dragged his wife, children, and more than 400 people from Taiyuan Prefecture to the market. They were all killed, regardless of men, women, old and young. This made Tian Weiye and Lu Wang Shi Jiyuan break up their relationship and lead everyone
The tribesmen were still fierce when they besieged Taiyuan Prefecture.
In the end, Tian Weiye led his troops to attack Taiyuan City first, forcing King Lu Shi Jiyuan and his sons, concubines, maids, and eunuchs to the Taiye Pavilion of the Jin Palace, and then burned more than 4,000 people to death in a sea of fire.
For now, the Mongols are obviously the most satisfied with Tian Weiye's performance. During the siege of Taiyuan City, they also gave priority to strengthening Tian Weiye's troops. As a result, Tian Weiye led his troops to surrender to the Mongols, leaving only 10,000 soldiers and horses. However, they paid a heavy price.
After the capture of Taiyuan City, there were still more than 20,000 elite troops, whose strength was comparable to that of King Yong Shi Chengzu and slightly lower than the Chengde Army led by Wang Yuankui.
After entering Taiyuan City, Tian Weiye will give priority to the nearly 20,000 surrendered troops.
Even if there is no convenience of flying pigeons to send messages from Taiyuan to Yongzhou, I believe that Zhu Yu will not get the news for too long. This is destined to make it impossible for Zhu Yu to put many troops on the southern front to guard against the Chu-Shu coalition forces.
This means there is less time left for him.
Thinking of this, Han Qian pulled the reins and drove the horse down the river embankment, stepping on the ice to the east bank.
In the past two days, no civilian laborers were organized to dig out the river ice on the west bank. I don’t know how the river is frozen. Seeing that Han Qian was going directly to the east bank, Huo Li and other military attachés did not dare to stop them, so they directly rode on Han Qian’s way.
Before that, we first tested the solidity of the river ice and formed a warning circle on the east bank to prevent it from being taken advantage of by the small group of sentries of the Xiangbei Army wandering around the periphery.
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Watching Tangyi's soldiers crossing the Gushui River in separate groups and entering the west bank, advancing unswervingly to the west, Yao Xishui, Xu Jing and others accompanied Li Zhigao and stood on a low mountain in the south of Luoshan City, watching all this in silence.
"The Marquis of Qianyang has gone too far to deceive others, so he expects us not to dare to provoke a war?" Deng Tai said angrily, biting his molar teeth.
The scale of the Tangyi Army's cavalry was also extremely limited. They detected that only about two thousand cavalrymen from the Tangyi Army had been transferred to the west wing. Except for the more than a thousand cavalrymen who initially crossed the Gushui River and advanced in coordination with the outposts and horses, this time
At that time, there was another cavalry force of more than a thousand people crossing the river from the direction of Dushanjin. You could tell with your toes that it was Han Qian's Yazhang army.
Han Qian crossed the Gushui River immediately?
Doesn’t this mean they definitely don’t dare to provoke a war first?
Deng Tai could not wait to pick up his halberd and lead a group of troops to rush towards Dushanjin. It was better than staying here and being useless.
"Master Marquis, the Tangyi Army has crossed the Gushui River with more than 9,000 soldiers and horses. They are in Huangchuan, and Le'an's troops have also moved out to supplement the troops along the Gushui River. Is it possible that we really want to let them push into Luo?
Under Shandong City?" Zhong Yanhu led a group of soldiers and horses to withdraw from the camp in the east. Even though he had not served in front of Li Zhigao's tent for a short time, the suffocating scene today still made him angry, and he rushed to Li Zhigao's tent.
Under the handsome banner, he asked loudly and unwillingly.
"Just follow the orders." Li Zhigao said loudly with a gloomy face.
He seemed to be a rock standing on the cliff. The biting cold wind made him, who was just over forty years old, look a little more vicissitudes of life.
"Doesn't Han Qian really have any means to recruit the Luoshan defenders?" Yao Xishui couldn't help but ask suspiciously when he saw that the Tangyi army was so determined and eager to cross the Gushui River.
Although there were rumors in Jinling that Han Qian's main purpose was to prevent them from recruiting Luoshan defenders, Han Qian's behavior at this time was too impatient.
As an official retained by Shen Yang when the Longque Army was newly formed, Zhang Qian, Han Qian, and Li Zhigao have known each other for nearly ten years or more. Seeing the indignation of the generals of the Xiangbei Army, His palms were also sweaty.
He didn't know whether Li Zhigao would suddenly order the troops and horses east of Luoshan City to stop their westward retreat, and instead shrink and form formations towards him to prevent the Tangyi army from advancing westward.
Zhang Qian couldn't help but cursed Han Qian for being too impatient and bullying others. By doing this, didn't he put his contempt for the Xiangbei Army directly on his face for the world to see? This grandson concluded that Li Zhigao would endure this tone and give in. It was concluded that Li Zhigao did not dare to provoke a military provocation. Isn't this a trap to lure Tangyi's army to attack halfway across the border?
If a war is really going to start here, as Shen Yang's special envoy, what will he do and what can he do?
When Zhang Qian was worried, he also noticed that the veins on the back of Li Zhigao's hand holding the sword at his waist were exposed, and his hands were shaking slightly. He was obviously trying to control the anger in his heart. He didn't even know that the Xiangbei Army and the Tangyi Army started a fight and started fighting. If it flows into a river, what kind of chaos will Da Chu become?
He suddenly realized that among the people in Jinling City who were intent on watching the fire from the other side, probably few of them would realize how big the fire would really burn, right?
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The westward advance of Tangyi Army and the westward retreat of Xiangbei Army lasted for one day.
This was an extremely depressing day.
At dusk, He Liufeng led the Tangyi forward with three thousand elite troops and formally entered the camp vacated by Xiangbei City in the east of Luoshan City.
The Chengdong Camp and the other three camps were all built by Li Zhigao over the past half year or so. They were almost all built close to the outer edge of the moat of Luoshan City. They used layers of fence walls and earth ridges to protect Luoshan City. The defenders tightly besieged the city.
On this day, the Luoshan garrison, which had been besieged for more than half a year, did not try to take advantage of the chaos to break out of the siege from the east city, and there was no other movement. It seemed that everything that happened outside the city had nothing to do with them.
Early the next morning, Tan Xiuqun and Su Lie led their troops from the southeast and northeast to approach the east of Luoshan City. They formed a "pin" formation with He Liufeng's troops who had entered the camp in the east of the city in advance and set up camp.
At this time, Tangyi's army had a total of more than 23,000 troops crossing the Gushui River. They were distributed in a triangle from Luoshan City to the east of the Gushui River, which was not a very open area. There were only less than 10,000 troops. , as the rear army, was also stationed in the villages east of the Gushui River.
